I’ve heard that the same thing is going on again with China today—Westerners think the Chinese government is efficient compared to democracy but really it isn’t.
Can you please explain why you think this, or link to some relevant resources? (For context, I came across this comment after posting Ways that China is surpassing the US on LW, and I’d like to hear more from your contrasting perspective.)
Chinese people themselves don’t seem to regard the West as having a relatively inefficient govt—their rationale for defending their system is economic and physical security https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/1354066119850253
Studies on relative economic inefficiency of Chinese state owned enterprises, cited in OP
Can you please explain why you think this, or link to some relevant resources? (For context, I came across this comment after posting Ways that China is surpassing the US on LW, and I’d like to hear more from your contrasting perspective.)
This China scholar is pessimistic about the recent pivot to more state intervention.
https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/podcasts/2019/04/12/ep-17-diagnosing-chinas-state-led-capitalism-yasheng-huang
General perception gleaned from the opinions of informed China watchers, e.g. https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage
Chinese people themselves don’t seem to regard the West as having a relatively inefficient govt—their rationale for defending their system is economic and physical security https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/1354066119850253
Studies on relative economic inefficiency of Chinese state owned enterprises, cited in OP
Chinese AI not as good as the hype https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/deciphering-chinas-ai-dream/
Despite ballyhoo about surveillance and precise social engineering, they are still relying on old fashioned brutalities to pacify Xinjiang